Sentences with phrase «international climate change movement»

Bringing these discussions to a broader set of people — with the intent of building an international climate change movement — Bill McKibben penned a popular Rolling Stone article warning of «Global Warming's Terrifying New Math.»

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As Andre Leu, the current president of the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM) noted, «Dec. 1, 2015 will be seen as one of the most important days in history... as the tipping point when the world was saved from catastrophic climate change.»

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Art and Social Activism investigates art's relationship to activism, creating a live forum in which to discuss the visual arts in our current climate of grassroots action, demonstrations, and international protest movements — with the goal of promoting awareness, increased involvement, and change.

Just a few years ago I used to say that a social movement to drive serious international action on climate change required an «impossible coalition.»

Over 800 members of civil society walked out of the UN climate talks (COP19) on what was supposed to be the penultimate night, led by social movements like the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and Greeclimate talks (COP19) on what was supposed to be the penultimate night, led by social movements like the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and GreeClimate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and GreeClimate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and Greenpeace.

Nearly two decades later, after the U.S. and the international community continued to fail to take action, he moved from journalist to activist, founding 350.org, which has grown into a global movement to solve the challenge of climate change.

«Inaction on key issues including climate change, and rising international tensions motivate the movement of the clock.

Transition Milwaukee (TM) is part of an international movement formed, in part, in response to the peak oil crisis and more generally around issues of climate change, economic security and permaculture principles.Peak oil is a non-controversial acknowledgement from government, academic and industry experts that fossil fuels, a finite resource, reach a peak moment of production and necessarily...

350 Aotearoa is the New Zealand arm of the international climate movement 350.org, which aims to unite the world around climate change solutions.

Probably, the major issue that forces us as individuals to take action is health and in so far, no socio - environmental issue like climate change has given rise to such international political and institutional movement, and societal initiatives, including governmental and non-governmental ones, devising strategies in sectors like Energy and so on — for instance, biodiversity maintenance does not have that power!

What I mean by this question is that climate change poses a real challenge to social change movements because it is gradual, delayed in its effects, and uneven in its impacts.The message that is coming from climate scientists at present, along with climate - hawkish public figures, is that we still have time to change — that international conferences, evolving public policies, steady but small annual emissions reductions, could still prove sufficient to keep us within the «safe zone».

This weekend, Oil Change International's newest campaigner and I joined dozens of dedicated community leaders, climate movement allies and friends, and a couple thousand new friends in a march to the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California.

Just think of what could happen now that the Arab Youth Climate movement, one symbol of many of the sweeping changes in the arab region, is to be united with this international platform, even if it is one of a slow pace.

Representing the climate movement, May Boeve, 350.org Executive Director, and Jesse Bragg, Corporate Accountability International Media Director, spoke to financial ties between Big Oil and the Science Committee, as well as climate impacts that likely could have been curbed if Exxon had told the truth when its scientists warned executives about climate change.